Context Title: House I     
Context Name (Excavation): House I     House 1
Context Name (Publication): No. 2 Straight Street No. 4 Straight Street     House 1 was the first trench Woolley set in area AH. It correlates largely with published houses No. 2 and No. 4 Straight Street
Context Description: Excavation house designation on the southeast side of Straight Street (originally called Division Street as it divided the first excavation house designations I, II, and III). This unit covered published houses No.2 and No. 4 Straight Street.1     
Season Number: 09: 1930-1931      
Culture/Period: Old Babylonian      
[1] Woolley did not leave behind a map of excavation house units. Field notes give some indication of where they were located and show the progress of excavation across area AH. Most excavation house designations (expressed in Roman numerals) contained two published houses (expressed by street name and door number), The excavation house units are here described in terms of the published houses they mostly or completely contained but the exact limits of each excavated house unit is not completely known.

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Objects: House I Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
16080 (none) 1948,0423.85 (none) Clay tablet. Commercial. Date: Year when the exalted stela of Nin-lil was set up. Apparently a variant of Gimil-Sin 6 (SAKI 234) H.C. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16082 (none) 1948,0423.371 (none) Clay tablet. Commercial. (Underlying seal-impressions) Date: Year after the wall of the West was built.- Gimil-Sin 5 (SAKI 234) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16099 (none) 1953,0411.58 (none) Clay tablet. Fragment. UET/V:68 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16341 (none) 1931,1010.278 (none) Fish hook. Bronze. [drawing 1:1]
16430 (none) 1931,1010.173 (none) Terracotta relief. Plaque, imperfect and much worn. A woman, nude, bending forward and sucking liquor through a pipe fron a vase set on the ground; behind her a male figure, broken away from the waist and right foot missing; engaged in copulation.
16537 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone. Fragment of base. (Libit-Ishtar) building of (E-gig-par) (cf. Ur Inscription 106).
16538 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone. Fragment of apex. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16580 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Babylonian letter to: ^dSin-...; from ^dSin-...; H.C. 30/Xi, [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16591 (none) 1953,0411.150 (none) Clay tablet. Date: year Isin was conquered for the fourth time. Rim-Sin [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16791 (none) (none) (none) Grey limestone plaque. Representing upper portion of human cheek. Eye, eyebrows and hair on face. Carved similarly on both sides. Perforated for suspension. [drawing 1:1 shows Egyptian eye of Horus and indicates perforation at left of eye]
16816 (none) (none) (none) Clay Tablet. Babylonian Letter. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17204B (none) (none) (none) [A-C] 3 clay tablets. (A) Commercial: receipt. Date: Ibi-Sin (Ur Inscription 200). [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17204C (none) (none) (none) [A-C] 3 clay tablets. (A) Commercial: receipt. Date: Ibi-Sin (Ur Inscription 200). [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17005 31-43-139 (none) (none) Beads. 2 hematite lentoids. 1 agate lentoid. 1 jasper? Double conoid. 1 Quartz barrel. Glass paste ring beads. 1 fluted glass paste double conoid with raised ends.
16785 31-43-494 (none) (none) Copper knife. Tang broken and part missing. Type _ [drawing 1:1]
17204A 47-29-123 (none) (none) [A-C] 3 clay tablets. (A) Commercial: receipt. Date: Ibi-Sin (Ur Inscription 200). [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16598 52-30-139, 52-30-139 (none) (none) Clay tablet. Fifth? year after Isin was captured Rim-Sin. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
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Media: House I Export: JSON - XML - CSV Woolley's Field Note Cards

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p040 Ur_Notes_v3_p040 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p041 Ur_Notes_v3_p041 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p063 Ur_Notes_v3_p063 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p127 Ur_Notes_v3_p127 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v3_p139 Ur_Notes_v3_p139 (none)

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